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I used to have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I loved it because I met fascinating people and learned things I’d never hear about otherwise. I hated it because it could swallow whole every moment of my free time.
But ever since this weekend, and the “love” part has vastly overtaken the “hate” part. That’s [...]

We all have “those words”—you know, the ones we belittle as “manufactured” or “PC” or too trendy to do more than sneer at. For some, words like maximize and impact, used as verbs, top their list. For others, it’s terms like collateral damage to mean killing innocent people. For me, a word that’s long topped [...]

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Joan Kremer is a professional business/ nonfiction writer, novelist, short story writer, editor of an online literary journal, and most recently co-owner of the Story Mountain Center for Writers in Second Life® (where I go by the avatar name Alas Zerbino, whose picture appears above).

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